Back page gossip from the 24 February issue of Research Europe
Rules of the game
A landmark ruling of the EU’s Court of Justice has cleared the way for the bloc to withhold funding from Hungary and Poland in response to violations of the principles of EU law. But the court said that legal violations, which in Hungary’s case have included breaches of academic freedom, must threaten EU funding for the mechanism to be used, leaving the door open for both countries to continue to fight for their money.